Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Mississippi

Marathon Cheese Booneville

Name: Marathon Cheese Booneville Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Booneville, MS · ~202 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.8
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Marathon Cheese Booneville runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Marathon Cheese Booneville: 3.8 TCR = 114% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Marathon Cheese Booneville safety composite

Marathon Cheese Booneville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−1.4

2020→2024

Marathon Cheese Booneville injury rate improved

Marathon Cheese Booneville's TCR fell 1.4 from 4.6 in 2020 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.6 · 2021=5.0 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Booneville, MS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 114% of ind

DART 2.5 DART
RANK P65
PHOTO Foremost Farms - Chi…
BOOK 5y book
INJ 34 inj
SIZE ~202 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Foremost Farms - Chilton (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Marathon Cheese Booneville averages 3.8 TCR (114% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Marathon Cheese Booneville TCR series: 2020=4.6 · 2021=5 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Marathon Cheese Booneville falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Marathon Cheese Booneville (202 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Marathon Cheese Booneville has more employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year	TCR	DART	Injuries	Illnesses
2024	3.2	2.5	5	0
2023	3.9	2.8	7	0
2022	2.1	1.6	4	0
2021	5.0	4.4	8	1
2020	4.6	3.7	10	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · MS · Booneville

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 26 employers in Booneville, MS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Foremost Farms - Chilton	CHILTON, WI	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Foremost Farms - Marshfield	MARSHFIELD, WI	3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	BOONEVILLE	MARATHON, WI	3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese	LE SUEUR, MN	3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Dart Container Quitman	QUITMAN	202 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Fusion Furniture Plant 2	NEW ALBANY	202 FTE
STATE-SIZE	6340-IRBY-12 13 CORP	JACKSON	202 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Store 0678 Flowood	FLOWOOD	202 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ACCO Brands - Booneville	Booneville	501 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Baptist Memorial Hospital	Booneville	386 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Plumrose, USA	Booneville	367 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 114	Booneville	222 FTE
NAT-TCR	3401 - Lake Oswego, OR	Lake Oswego, OR	3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Store 0205	Easley, SC	3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Store 0644	Jacksonville, FL	3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Leesburg Town Shop	Leesburg, VA	3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Store 0033	Marietta, GA	202 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Method- People Against Dirty	Chicago, IL	202 FTE
NAT-SIZE	1. J-M Farms, LLC	Miami, OK	202 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Store 0537	Gainesville, FL	202 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.